Footwear, Apparel Primary Items Removed From MTB List After House Members' Objections

Outside of bags, bedding, clothing and shoes, the only items removed were:

• Craft Mats
• Acid Red 33
• Amino-propyl-tricthoxysilanc
• Pegcetacoplan
• Trimethylsiloxysilicate
• Lock pocket tents
• Dark room tents
• Air tube chambered tents
• In footwear, these items in the Senate bill were removed from the House bill:
• Shoe and boot covers
• Women's rubber or plastic footwear covering the ankle with fox-like banding
• Men's leather upper footwear, San Crispino construction, valued at over $32 a pair
• Men's leather upper athletic footwear
• Men's waterproof leather footwear, valued at $27 or higher
• Men's waterproof footwear, valued at over $15 a pair, covering the ankle
• Men's waterproof footwear, valued at over $13 per pair, not covering the ankle
• Women's waterproof footwear, valued at over $15 a pair, covering the ankle
• Women's waterproof footwear, valued at over $13 per pair, covering the ankle
• Children's waterproof leather footwear, not covering the ankle, valued $14 per pair or higher
• Open toe women's footwear, valued over $23 but not over $27 per pair
• Slip-on footwear for women, valued over $24 but not over $27 per pair

In bags, the House removed:

• Drawstring backpacks with zippered pocket
• Tote bags of paper yarn
• Golf bag bodies with rain hoods and straps
• Flat golf bag body components, without bottoms.

However, the broad category of golf bag body flats are in both chambers' MTB lists.

In apparel, the House removed:

• Women's coats of man-made woven fibers
• Men or boys' linen woven trousers
• Men's or boys' linen woven shorts
• Women's dresses of woven viscose
• Girls' woven cotton corduroy trousers
• Women's woven waffle shirts
• Babies' woven artificial fiber shirts and blouses
• Babies' artificial fiber woven jumpsuits, coveralls, dresses, skirts, skirtalls, or clothing accessories.

In bedding, the House removed:

• Mattress protectors with toppers
• Printed mattress protectors
• Pillow shells, constructed with gussets
• Pillow shells, with oval jacquard weave.

Some types of shoes were allowed at some price points, but not others. Women's leather uppers footwear lined with pigskin, pairs between $21 and $27 and pairs between $31 and $40 are in the MTB. But the same description, with pairs $24 to $32, $37 to $43, $57 to $62 and $88 to $102 were removed from the MTB. Women's footwear with leather uppers, open toe with strap and buckle were not included in the House MTB if they cost $12.50 to $28 per pair, or $12.70 to $18.70 per pair, but were allowed if they cost $27 to $40 per pair. Sling-back shoes with closed toes, described as women's footwear with leather uppers, strap with closed toe and open heel, were not included in the House MTB.

But all women's footwear valued over $20 but not over $24 was included in the MTB, as was all women's footwear valued over $50 but not over $60. The House removed men's or boys' golf shoes, valued at $30 per pair or higher

Also removed were:

• Men's golf shoes, uppers of textile materials
• Golf shoes other than for men, uppers of textile materials.

But golf shoes for men with rubber or plastic outers, over $19 a pair are in both chambers' MTB lists, as are golf shoes for other than men of that description. Men's golf shoes, outer soles of rubber plastics, leather or composition leather, except pigskin uppers, also are in both MTB lists.

Many protective shoes were removed from the House list:

• Men's oxford work footwear with metal safety toe and internal metatarsal protection
• Oxford-style leather footwear with metal safety toe and static dissipating protection
• Men's mid-cut work footwear with composite safety toe and waterproof leather uppers
• Oxford-style footwear for men or women, with textile uppers, with an alloy safety toecap and static dissipating protection
• Oxford-style work footwear with steel safety toe and static dissipating protection.

But the House did keep oxford footwear with a textile upper and composite toe, valued at $12 to $20 a pair.